Chapter 113 Indium without Effects, a Gods Living for a Men (1/2)
”One day a year later, I suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a problem with the talisman I gave him. Only then did I realize that something might have happened, so I hurriedly went to find him.” Long Fei ignored Hao Ning's mistake and continued to talk to himself, but his lips were trembling a little, ”When I found him, he was lying on his bed in his dorm. Other than him, there was no one else in the entire dorm, it was what you call a summer vacation, it was extremely hot outside, but that day, I felt that his dorm room was as cold as an icehouse. When I saw him, he was still smiling pleasantly, asking me why I was there, and even saying that he was going to introduce me to his classmates, as if he didn't even know that he was in danger himself. ”
”Was he in danger? he didn't know? ” Liu Shuai also noticed the abnormality at this moment, ”How is that possible?”
”I don't know much about the longevity of a human body, but I could clearly feel one thing,” Long Fei once again looked at Hao Ning, and took in a deep breath and said, ”that is, his soul was running out, not the kind of running that a soul was going to another life after death.” Seeing that Hao Ning was a little confused, Long Fei explained in detail, ”— To be exact, in natural deaths, a person's soul is complete and has only left the physical body. However, even though Yu Fei's soul was still in his physical body, I almost couldn't feel it anymore, which means that even if he died, he wouldn't be able to enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation again nor to be reincarnated. Just like what happened to Zhou Yuan before. ”
”Holy sh*t!” Hao Ning almost jumped up, but he held it back, ”Again? Did somebody do a soul-expelling ceremony to him? Did he betray his soul? Was it something over ten years ago? Were people already doing this a dozen years ago? Even in a nationally famous university? ”
”Calm down,” Liu Shuai felt strange, but he still tried to calm Hao Ning down, and asked him carefully, ”According to what I know, this kind of soul-expelling business was rarely seen in earlier years. After all, at that time, people still valued their own souls more.” After he finished speaking, he looked at Hao Ning, ”After all, other than success, money, and power, there are other things that people believed in.”
”That's right,” Hao Ning thought about it carefully at this time and nodded, ”Furthermore, Yufei has been with you for so many years, he should know about some things regarding the soul. Then who did the soul-expelling rite to him? ”
”It was not a soul-expelling rite,” Long Fei shook his head and said, ”I've asked him in detail. He said that he has never encountered any strange people, and has never met any cultivators or ghosts or gods either. It was only when I circulated the water element in his body that I found that he was slightly different from the others. I extracted the difference and gave it to him, but I didn't pay much attention to it until I got my master's degree after a long time when I realized that the difference in his body was an element.”
”What element?” Although hearing a Dragon God speak of elements was strange, thinking that this person before him was a doctor, Liu Shuai did not feel surprised anymore.
Hao Ning did not speak. He was thinking about the abnormality of what Long Fei had said.
”Indium.” Long Fei looked at the teacup as if he was about to crush it.
”What reason?” Liu Shuai felt a little strange, ”Because of what? What cause and effect?”
”Just indium.” Long Fei was startled, but still repeated it, ”Indium, you don't know about indium?”
”You didn't say why, how would I know why?” Liu Shuai became a little anxious, ”Don't keep me guessing.”
”It's you, stop messing around, okay?” Hao Ning understood and waved his hand to stop Liu Shuai. He asked Long Fei probingly, ”Are you talking about indium the metal element?”
”Right.” Long Fei covered his face, as though he was unwilling to recall that incident.
”Is it an element?” Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning, ”a chemical element? And what about the effect?”
”Have you never memorized the periodic table?” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai snappily, ”You totally forgot it?”
”Nonsense, I can recite it clearly. Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine...” Liu Shuai's face flushed as he quickly argued.
”What kind of ability is it to recite horizontally? You should recite it vertically, that's what was in the college entrance exam!” Hao Ning rolled his eyes at Liu Shuai, and continued, ”Lithium sodium potassium rubidium cesium frankincense, beryllium magnesium calcium strontium barium radium, boron aluminum gallium indium …” After he finished speaking, he did not want to look at Liu Shuai's blushing face, so he asked, ”Is it this indium?”
”Yes,” Long Fei looked at Hao Ning and nodded. ”At that time, I didn't know what it was, but I felt that something was amiss, so I helped him separate the foreign element within his body. A few years later, I found out that it was indium salt, and it's not just ordinary indium, but an isotope of indium. It was then that I understood the light and the despair in his eyes when he got the substance tested in the lab. ”
”An isotope of indium. Then what is it...” Liu Shuai had obviously forgotten all about the chemistry he learned in the past.
”It's indium, too, but it should be radioactive.” Hao Ning thought for a while, ”I don't know how much damage it would do to the human body, but the indium salt itself would harm the human body …” After saying that, Hao Ning quickly took out his phone to check, ”The toxicity of indium against mammals is comparable to arsenic …”
”What is arsenic?” Liu Shuai felt that today was the day to test his memory in chemistry. ”Is it harmful to the human body?”
”Very harmful.” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai tenderly and continued, ”The compound of impure arsenic is red, so it can also be commonly called — Red Crane Head.”
After saying that, Hao Ning no longer looked at Liu Shuai's frightened expression and continued to look at his phone: ”Because indium poisoning is relatively rare, it is often ignored, causing wrong diagnosis to be made.” Seeing this, Hao Ning couldn't help but ask Long Fei, ”Why?”
”Why what?” Liu Shuai was unable to keep up, and asked with a puzzled look, ”Why is indium harmful to the human body?”
”...” Hao Ning was a little speechless, ”Firstly, indium salt is scarce, so it definitely wasn't eaten by mistake, and secondly, the symptoms of poisoning such as headache, unsteady walking, trembling of hands and feet, and so on, are all easy to ignore, people tend to think that they will be able to recover after resting for a few days. Thirdly, indium salt is very strictly managed, even in university, only a few people can reach it, which means that once it's discovered, the person can easily be exposed, that person took the risk, probably because indium poisoning is rare, and is often ignored. So, analyzing comprehensively, what that person expected was that Yufei could be wrongly diagnosed, and then die quietly--the symptoms of indium poisoning are not easy to check, people might never even find the cause, who could have such an extreme malevolence as to harm Yufei in this way?”
”Why?” Long Fei chuckled coldly, within his sneer, there was an additional tinge of misery. ”Later on, when I investigated carefully, I found out that there were two reasons, an obvious one and a hidden one. These reasons, haha …”
”What are you laughing at, say whatever you have to say,” Liu Shuai said somewhat impatiently. ”This isn't writing a novel, cut your crap!”
”Do you remember what Elder Ren said about Yufei before?” Long Fei looked out of the window and said to Liu Shuai, ”that Yufei was very warmhearted. He often helps the students in the dorm to answer their names during class time.”
”That's right, we did the same thing when we were in school,” Liu Shuai blurted out, he thought for a moment and then added, ”Of course, not for so many times.”
”But Elder Ren also said that later on, since Yufei was studying so hard, all of the teachers knew him, so he was no longer able to answer for others when the teachers call the roll in classes,” Long Fei said with a bitter smile. ”As a result, the fact that those people didn't attend classes in the past was found out by the teachers, once the teachers found out about this, something terrible would naturally happen to those people. There were naturally some among them who hold resentment towards Yufei. ”
”But Yufei helped them before.” Liu Shuai could not help but be filled with anger, ”How could they not be grateful for helping them previously, and feel resentment once he couldn't help them?”
”If you have always been good to others, they didn't feel it, they even took it for granted,” Hao Ning poured the three of them some tea and continued, ”But once you stop being good to them, they will think that you have become bad, understand?”
”But just because of this?” Liu Shuai's face was filled with disbelief, ”but not to such an extent.”
”This is the origin of all. There is always a reason to bear grudges. But what's worse is that at that time, Yufei was still young, and he studied hard,” Long Fei thought for a while, before continuing, ”So the time he returned to the dorm was always very late, which affected the sleep of many people. As time passed by, the entire dorm gradually started to hate him instead of desolating him.”
”What the f * ck!” Liu Shuai slapped the table, ”Were they even human? They didn't study hard, and they despised others for studying hard? ”